September 27, 2030

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Fasting

Fast day · Wednesday / Friday

Wednesday and Friday: fast without meat, dairy or eggs. Whether fish is allowed depends on the day's feast — check the church calendar.

• Meat: not allowed
• Dairy & eggs: not allowed
• Fish: not specified
• Oil: allowed
• Wine: allowed

Food rules are reference church information. Agree your personal measure of fasting with a priest; consult a doctor if you are ill.

Readings of the day

• Epistle

  Galatians 4:8–21

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  ⁸However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

  ⁹But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

  ¹⁰You observe days, months, seasons, and years.

  ¹¹I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.

  ¹²I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,

  ¹³but you know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.

  ¹⁴That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

  ¹⁵What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

  ¹⁶So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

  ¹⁷They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.

  ¹⁸But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.

  ¹⁹My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

  ²⁰but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.

  ²¹Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?

• Gospel

  Luke 6:17–23

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  ¹⁷He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;

  ¹⁸as well as those who were troubled by unclean spirits, and they were being healed.

  ¹⁹All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came out of him and healed them all.

  ²⁰He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, God’s Kingdom is yours.

  ²¹Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

  ²²Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

  ²³Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, New Calendar (OCA practice). Text: World English Bible.

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• Prayer of the day: Short penitential prayers